Board:thomson/ip1000

The Thomson IP1000 is designed by Thomson Electronics. It is the RCA RM4100's big brother. It is a great little set-top-box for coreboot. Linux has never been able to run on this board until now. Maintained by Joseph Smith.

TODO: A full bootlog of this board running coreboot is available for reference.

Building coreboot

If you're using VGA you need to prepend your video BIOS to the coreboot.rom file. Copy your VGA BIOS file (vga.rom) to the ~/coreboot-v2/targets/thomson/ip1000/ip1000 directory and then:

cat vga.rom coreboot.rom > cboot.rom

Flashing coreboot

At last you're ready to flash cboot.rom to your IP1000. Unfortunately there is not really an easy way to do this. The IP1000 has a PLCC32 socket for the firmware chip so you can take the chip out and use the Hot Flash method or a programmer device. After you have Linux running you can always use flashrom.

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